- Network: CBS All Access
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 6, 2020
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This is not your ordinary binge-watch. The deeper you dig, Interrogation also becomes an unusually compelling tragedy. [17 Feb - 1 Mar 2020, p.9]
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The show can be a little overheated, especially toward the top, but at most moments, something interesting is going on on-screen, and there are some fine, subtle performances among a smattering of less subtle ones.
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It’s frustrating because all of the elements are there but Interrogation unknowingly sacrifices its own quality by allowing us to choose where to go.
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We have no confidence that this mix-and-match episode format is anything more than a gimmick and will just lead to confused viewers.
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“Interrogation” is just good enough to be frustrating for the ways in which it isn’t yet better, and most of them stem back to the original sin of the show’s format.
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A frustratingly messy season of television, one that seems to be working against its gimmick, too often amplifying its weaknesses, and only rarely striking points of intrigue.
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Genre switcheroos supply the bulk of the surprises in Interrogation, which is otherwise chock-full of stock characters, pedestrian atmospherics and uninspired performances, even from generally reliable actors like Gallner and Strathairn. And because the deceased Mary is presented as a one-dimensional monster, there's little urgency in the quest to bring her killer to justice.
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There's a competent-to-solid-to-good show in Interrogation if watched in an optimized fashion — most likely as close to the events' chronological order as possible — one that better captures Eric's struggle to clear to his name in a system that is predisposed against him from the start. As an experiment in a streaming platform's potential to tell stories in different ways, Interrogation will likely be sentenced to being a footnote.